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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 2848438, member: 84047&quot;]I have a Leontius half follis (S. 1335; H. 33) overstruck on a radiate fraction of Maximianus. Of the host coin details remain of the obverse legend ...MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, plus the back of Maximianus&#039; portrait with radiate crown and wreath ties.&nbsp; On the reverse is visible above, the upper third of a large laurel wreath from the undertype, with a small ring at its apex. Byzantine copper coins overstruck on earlier Byzantine coppers are common, but it is unusual to find a Byzantine copper overstruck on a 400-year-old Roman coin! Three such overstruck bronzes of Leontius were published for the first time in Spink&#039;s Numismatic Circular, January 1971, p. 7; the undertypes on those coins were all Tetrarchic radiate fractions with Vota wreath on reverse as on this coin, one of Maximianus and two of Constantius I as Caesar. The author conjectures that a hoard of radiate fractions may have been discovered early in Leontius&#039; reign and &quot;used as ready-made flans for this issue.&quot; I have rather clumsily highlighted details of the undertype to make them more visible.[ATTACH=full]675523[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]675524[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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